Northampton St Giles

"The parish of St. Giles comprises about 800 acres, of which 100 consist of meadow watered by the river Nene on the south. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £7. 19.; net income, £111; patrons, Simeon's Trustees. The church is a large cruciform structure, with a lofty square embattled tower rising from the intersection; it displays good portions in various styles of English architecture, with a fine western Norman entrance: in a chapel in the south aisle is a beautiful altar-tomb of alabaster, and the font is richly panelled in the later English style. A church district named St. Edmund's was formed out of St. Giles' parish in 1846 by the Ecclesiastical Commission: the living is in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Peterborough, alternately." [Samuel Lewis. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)]